Doh! Load Height
By J.R. Bluett
Doh! Tie down your load, know the length, know the height! Obviously this story happened in 2006, but breaking S#!$ is cool any time. Check out more photos of this whoopsie on Snopes.com.
While we’re on the subject of bridges, when was the last time you watched a video of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse? Structural failures, machinery failures, tool failures — Toolmongers usually arrive on the site before anyone else, either containing or cleaning up the mess. And sometimes a Toolmonger pulls a Tim “The Toolman” Taylor stunt.
Let us know in comments about the failures and mistakes you’ve seen.
Hoe Down [Snopes]
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
How many people lost their jobs?
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I once heard about a famous Rochester NY based company, that made little yellow boxes filled with silver halide coated strips, that commissioned a pool to be built in one of its buildings,…but never had it filled.
Because the designers didn’t account for the weight of water.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Simple! Let the air out of the…
Oh, wait.
November 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Last summer I came upon a similar scene on US 29 in Virginia, in which a very large backhoe had been towed on a trailer behind a dump truck. In this case, the bridge survived, but the impact so unstabilized the truck/trailer/backhoe combination that the backhoe left the trailer and the full-size construction-site dirt truck rolled at highway speed.
The driver did not survive.